At the risk of posting twice in close succession about poetry (I could lose the few readers I have), I feel that I have to give you (and me) a little more Mary Oliver. These are excerpts of simple poems that say so much. From “The Journey” You strode deeper and deeperinto the world,determined to […]
I have to thank Lee Ann Dalton for this poem. I follow Lee Ann on FB. She writes the column “Made in Canada” in Vogue Knitting and has written about a number of us, myself included. I haven’t been reading a lot of poetry lately, because I haven’t come across any new poets that I
I saw this word on FB. It’s from the site Wordporn and it means – an overwhelming urge to run away. I didn’t identify with it immediately. It wasn’t really onomatopoe-ic enough – in other words, it didn’t sound like what it meant. Escape words need to roll off the tongue. They need to run
This post is a little out of sync, but then hasn’t everything been lately!! Extreme cold must dull the brain. The temperature has been plunging regularly to the -20s ºC from the mid – 10s ºC this February, making it the coldest February on record. Hence, I have had “brain-freeze.” Things need to lighten up
I just had to comment on the insane re-posting and “discussions,” if they can be called that, of a particular dress, more or specifically, the colours of a particular dress on FB. “Maybe it’s the time of year or maybe it’s the time of man,” but every once in a while a totally meaningless item,
